Employment Injury Benefits Convention, 1964 [Schedule I amended in 1980] (No. 121) - Ireland (Ratification: 1969)

Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2019, published 109th ILC session (2021)

Article 9(3)(a) of the Convention. Waiting period for injury benefit. The Government indicates that, as part of the measures introduced over the course of the EU/ECB/IMF Programme of Support for Ireland to reduce social welfare expenditure, the waiting period for payment of injury benefit has been increased from three to six days. Recalling that, in case of incapacity for work, Article 9(3)(a) of the Convention allows a maximum three-day waiting period for the payment of the benefit, the Committee requests the Government to indicate whether it envisages decreasing the current waiting period to meet the requirements of the Convention once the economic situation of the country improves. The Committee also requests the Government to provide information on any other form of financial protection provided during the current waiting period to persons who are incapacitated for work and whose earnings are suspended as a result of an employment injury.

Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1999, published 88th ILC session (2000)

The Committee notes that the Government's report contains no other information but the attached extract from the 1998 Statistical Information on Social Welfare Services published by the Department of Social, Community and Family Affairs. It wishes to remind the Government that the report to be supplied this year had to be a detailed report requested every five years and prepared according to the report form on the Convention adopted by the Governing Body of the ILO. The Committee hopes that such a detailed report will be provided by the Government for examination by the Committee at its next session in November-December 2000.